Rose-tinted

sometimes, looking through rose-tinted glasses may be the only viable option.

April 13-17 // Meet the folks, in shanghai.

April 15 // Business Executive Night at the Regent Hotel.

//the bannerman can.

//serene, the surprise.

7 days to our 2nd.
7+3 days to our lhasa,shigatse,mt. everest base camp,gyantze...trip.
6 deadlines before the much anticipated.
Godspeed.

You Got Me

missed the Roots gig for ERA 时空之旅,
but i still managed to get my favorite live on 750i.
all smiles for the few precious minutes.

you got me, for sure.
lovely homies.

blasting on replay, dancing silly on the toilet floor.
the heavy heart managed to shed a pretty substantial amount of weight a while ago.

back to reality.
to work, work, work, & more work.

as long as you love me

6th April - Christine's 五连拍, to be cont'd.
followed by Overseas Chinese Mixer @ Neocafe.

7th April - takumi with 4 hongkies, 4 singaporeans, and my unagi fix.
followed by barbarrosa.

10th April - Company dinner at 唐朝, Marriot.

8th April - Cantonese Family Restaurant
9th April - South Beauty
11th April - Banana Leaf
with the Small Uncle.

5th & 12th April - treats on 2 thursdays at Uncle Ah Long's bah kut teh restaurant.




how you got me blind is still a mystery,
i can't get you out of my head
don't care what is written in your history,
as long as you're here with me.

do you remember the old school primary school days?
backstreet's back alright!

It's Raining Men

the uncle's here.
the father in 4 days.
the boy end of April.

did i mention that my last couple of months here is rated hectic?

no time for this.

the last 4050

/TMSK on April's Fool.

finally. the lump sum is given.
no more forking out 4050 at one go.

the decision has been made.

& it's a NO. dead NO.
4 precious hours of air in my lungs gone to waste.
it did drain the life out of me...with nothingness. naught.

Brainiac

Mayvis says:
Ms tan, yr father here. Yr youngest sis told me of yr 3As for yr modules. Well done! Looks like you can go for PHD.

nice try,

How many oceans & continents are there in the world?

Consolidated answers from several people, including yours truly stupidly:
For oceans - 3, 4, 5, 7
For continents - 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
And the classic - Africa is in Asia (it wasn't me.)

thou shall never be stumped.

According to wiki,
The world ocean is subdivided into the Southern Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and, arguably, the Arctic Ocean.
That gives us 5 oceans.

According to worldatlas,
Continents BY SIZE #1 Asia - (44,579,000 sq km)
#2 Africa - (30,065,000 sq km)
#3 North America - (24,256,000 sq km)
#4 South America - (17,819,000 sq km)
#5 Antarctica - (13,209,000 sq km)
#6 Europe - (9,938,000 sq km)
#7 Australia/Oceania - (7,687,000 sq km)
7 continents deffo.

Flowers in the window

correction: not cherry, but peach blossoms.
at 上海南汇桃花村.

Wow, look at you now
Flowers in the window
It’s such a lovely day
And I’m glad that you feel the same


desires are healthy.
but the frustration derived from deprivation can be so overwhelming.
so, where did my baby go?

Where did my baby go?
I wonder where he ran off to
I miss my baby so
I'm calling but I can't get through

Each Day Gets Better

Where do we go, who knows?
But each day gets better

it does, doesn't it?
even with the suffocating amount of work,
the little petty & senseless tiffs,
the sobbing skies,
yada yada.

the act of ameliorating brings more returns than anyone can imagine.
i actually enjoy getting caught in the heavy traffic of projects, proposals, bosses, colleagues, discussions, debates, emails, phonecalls. and next i know, i go "TGIF!" and treat myself to a nice japanese meal. i absolutely love minor quarrels (not huge uproars) and the sweet apologetic state either one, or both will succumb to eventually. and just the thought of how the sun rays will gently plant kisses on my cheeks after the grays... ...awww..each day gets better.

so now, after "letters from iwo jima" & "the shawshank redemption", i'm headin out for dinner. tomorrow, it's gonna be cherry blossoms about an hour away. thereafter, i'll have to make plans for tibet, maybe guangzhou & hong kong, and of course bangkok before my return to sunny island.

Comfortable

/16th:dinner with e-scholars from the university of portland.
followed by 南京步行街，外滩 & New Heights (the all-too-familiar route).

/17th:visited a Jewish synagogue, a baptist church & a chinese temple.
but i was more drawn to this antique store.
& even more so, to the Lamboghini Murcielago below.

/a while back: at 长乐路,
a street that i kinda like.

Our love was, comfortable and so broken in
she's perfect, so flawless
I'm not impressed, I want you back

A john mayer song, of no relevance to my mood whatsoever,
triggered by the word 'comfortable'.

recently, it's just been comfortable.
even the broken water heater doesn't bother me that much anymore.
Content breeds happiness.
so i guess i'm pretty much contented of late.

Cursed & Cussing

my farking water heater decided to rain, no, POUR on me. literally.
the farking pipe exploded. so it's either i get flood from the heater or i get no farking water from the shower head at all. zilch. fark. i've to farking use the other toilet with a mildly choked, but still choked drainage system. so if it's the farking time of the month (& presuming my heater is still not replaced), i'm definitely gonna be farking struggling in a sea of red. the current farking toilet i'm using now is in no way equipped for ALL my womanly stuff (the toiletries, the pantyliners, the clean/dirty clothes, etc.) & the farking lock is farking spoilt. so as my farking heater malfunctions, the farking tap which i wake up to daily only provides me with farking subzero water.
it's farking messin up my quintessential routine.

the whole of last night, my farking internet connection was down.
& guess what now? i can't farking log on to msn. not on farking live messenger, not on farking meebo, not on farking iloveim, not on farking imtata, not on beng's farking live messenger. so i've no farking choice but to save the bitchin' for this farking entry of mine, externalizing and focusing the farking rage at one single point. I even went to the farking extent of taking deep breaths, in and out, in and out as though i'm farking giving birth.

fark the series of unfortunate events. fark the reliance on farking technology. i swear i could kill someone now.

do not antagonize me. I REPEAT, DO NOT ANTAGONIZE ME.

Play/Stop

When solution 1 failed, i took on 2 & 3.
green tea ice-cream, strepsils. not surprised?
random voice clips. not heard?
out-of-the-blue handwriting. not seen?

i used to get all defensive and peeved.
now that i'm trying, i only get disheartened.
there's a reason why 'Stop' is always seen with 'Play'.
metaphorically, i've thought of several reasons.

at least i made someone feel better.

Love Generation

babysitting/tutoring: new loves from san diego.

fudan university: new acquaintances from hongkong, shanghai, and capetown(south africa)

mesa manifesto, babyface, attica: new meets from upenn, shanghai, mauritius, germany, italy, france

ah, kurwa!

From jamaica to the world,
it's just love. It's just love.

Peace on earth to everyone you meet.
Don't you worry, it could be so sweet.

Feel the love generation.

P.D.A We Just Don't Care

Let's go to the 'sentosa'
I wanna kiss you underneath the stars

Let's make love
Let's go somewhere they might discover us
Let's get lost in lust
We just don't care,
We just don't care,
We just don't care.

/Edited by LPKS.
for you, from me.

the time machine

the search for aj's pictures turned out to be a trip back in time as i was lured into the realm of history, of bittersweet memories, of those who stay close & of passersby. browsing through the past with rewinds and forwards was a little like lurking in the neighborhood of emotional vulnerability. so, while i was walking the sinusoidal path, i made a few observations that really tickled.

1) i only learnt to smile at the end of year 04, and was a mix breed of chubbypandabunny before.

2) i had the most horrendous looking hair. straight, fringeless, flat and lifeless with an awfully distinct side parting.
3) i'm not the only stupid/fugly-looking one. Most of my friends were half-, if not twice as bad.

some people come, some people go.
to those who stay, i just wanna say THANK YOU.

心想事成

the wishing tree, where we had to toss a red rectangular cloth with a coin-like weight at one end, up on the branches. mine's written with ‘心想事成', success to whatever the heart seeks. up on the 2nd attempt. if the 5RMB works miracles, i'll toss 10 next time.

the fireworks and firecrackers have been unceasing since 4 hours back, from puxi all the way to pudong. it's as though they are simulating crisis conditions to prepare us for bombings that seem almost inevitable.
i've never thought of fireworks/crackers as uninteresting, until now.

back to Spring clean, then it's Shower, followed by Supernatural.